Summary
This guide aims to help health and social care workers provide dementia care, which corresponds to the needs and wishes of people from a wide range of ethnic groups, especially minority ethnic groups.
Content
Research and various surveys have shown that people with dementia and their relatives from minority ethnic groups do not use healthcare services, such as daycare, home care and respite care to the same extent as others. When trying to provide good quality dementia care to people from all ethnic groups, you may be faced with challenges, such as:
- how to reach people with dementia and carers who need support and care
- how to understand people’s needs and wishes in the light of different values and traditions
- how to establish trust
- how to tackle racism and discrimination (especially within the healthcare system)
- how to provide person-centred care
- how to overcome barriers linked to language and education
- how to adapt care and support to religious beliefs and cultural traditions.
There are no neat, readymade answers to these questions because every situation is different and involves different people, at different moments in time, looking for solutions within different social and healthcare systems. However, it is possible to develop an approach to working with and supporting people from all ethnic groups to gradually increase your ability to provide good quality intercultural care and support.
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